Comment on Well it started as a cult too ...

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, coercive and dangerous. We’re on the same page. Let me be an edgelord too. Why should you have all the fun?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide#Religious_groups

  Under the leadership of Pol Pot, who was an ardent Marxist atheist,[163] the Khmer Rouge enforced a policy of state atheism. According to Catherine Wessinger, “Democratic Kampuchea was officially an atheist state, and the persecution of religion by the Khmer Rouge was only matched in severity by the persecution of religion in the communist states of Albania (see Religion in communist Albania) and North Korea (see Freedom of religion in North Korea).”[164] All religions were banned, and the repression of adherents of Islam,[165] Christianity,[166] and Buddhism was extensive. It is estimated that up to 50,000 Buddhist monks were massacred by the Khmer Rouge

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